[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Line endings and liblouisutdml
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:47:04 +0100
Your comment on being careful with the GNU make files is just as much of an
example. Notepad is generally my quick have a look editor on windows, that does
have issues. Yes I could look at other editors but notepad is just handy in
some cases.
Using the eol extension I think is of value, even for Linux users, providing
people do configure their mercurial to use it, the eol extension comes with
mercurial (I think since version 1.5.4) and only needs that small edit of the
.hgrc file.
Michael Whapples
On 17 Jun 2012, at 21:34, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Which Windows tools are having problems with line endings? Notepad is a
> notoriously bad actor. edSharp does fine. Be careful about editing
> configure.ac or Makefile.am on Windows. Doing so will invalidate them,
> because the Gnu autotools do not recognize the cr lf ending.
>
> I think that the eol extension can wait until we know more about the
> difficuulties on Windows. I have not been having any.
>
> I think I'll avoid puting any binary files in the repository. They will
> have to go on the BrailleBlaster website.
>
> John
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 08:56:09PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
>> Hello,
>> As I am mainly working on windows now, I am running into issues while
>> working on the liblouis and liblouisutdml projects, line endings
>> normally are unix line endings but these don't work so well with some
>> tools on windows.
>>
>> For liblouis I set a load of properties on files so that when a windows
>> user checks out the repository on windows they should mainly get windows
>> line endings.
>>
>> For liblouisutdml mercurial is used, there are various solutions. I am
>> considering using the eol extension for mercurial as it enables the
>> configuration to be stored in the repository and all users then will get
>> the configuration. The only thing is that it would mean those who will
>> contribute will need to configure their mercurial to enable the eol
>> extension. This isn't hard and once done will work for all mercurial
>> repositories using the eol extension.
>>
>> Here is the page about the eol extension
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EolExtension
>>
>> As a quick summary, to enable the eol extension edit your user's .hgrc
>> file (unix users it will be ~/.hgrc and for windows users it would be
>> %USERPROFILE%\.hgrc ). All you need to do to this file is add the
>> following lines (NOTE: if the first line already exists then you only
>> need put the second line in that section IE. the next line down):
>> [extensions]
>> eol =
>>
>> So my question is, would everyone be happy for me to use the eol
>> extension so that the correct line endings appear for the user's
>> platform? Shall I go ahead and create an .hgeol (the configuration for
>> the extension) file?
>>
>> Also may be John if you could give me an idea what binary files exist
>> (eg. image files, etc).
>>
>> Michael Whapples
>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
>> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
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